Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-18
LOCAL BREyITIEs.

Inc lecture announced for tonight a
st. Pauls Church has been postponed.
The only arrest made yesterday was tina
OF Alfred Sieberg, by officer Coffey, for dis
turbing the peace.
Ninety carloads of ice came over from
Boca and vicinity yesterday, to be distrib
uted throughout the State.
The thermometer was down to zero a
Truckee early yesterday morning-tht
lowest figure of the season at that place.
Yesterday in Department One, of the
Superior Court, Judge Armstrong granted
u. E. Dakin divorce from Henry C.
Dakin.
warrant in the sum of So 500 has been
drawn by the Controller in favor of Yuba
county, to reimburse it for the support Of
aged INDECENT people for many years past.
Cameron II. King, of Pima, Arizona, for
several years resident of Sacramento, has
been appointed by the Governor of Arizona
as one of the Commissioners to codify the
laws.
There were no burglaries committed Sun
day night, or at least none-were reported
to the police yesterday. Possibly the night
was too chilly for the light-fngered gentry
to care to be out on business.
The highest and lowest Signal Service
temperature in Sacramento yesterday was
90 and 800, with gentle to fresh northerly
winds and clear weather. A killing frost,
along with ice formation, was observed.
The veterans of the Mexican War and
their friends will be pleased to know that
the Mexican War pension bill, allowing a
pension of S. per month to all survivors of
that struggle, has passed both Houses of
Congress.
The Chinese New Year commences next
Sunday, and the Sacramento Celestials will
probably have good time, notwithstand-
| ing the refusal of the City Trustees to al
low them to discharge bombs and fire.
| crackers on the occasion.
Yesterday forenoon thief stole rever-
sible overcoat, nearly new. from DIR. Sim
mons stable. Many little thefts have been
reported recently, conveying the impress
sion that housekeepers will do well to
guard against sneak-thieves as well as burg
lars.
The Police Commissioners yesterday APP
pointed the following special officers for
duty at the inaugural ball last evening: NJ.
A. Baxter, Charles d. SERVER, F. T. Daven-
port, James Henderson, ST. K. H. Stafford,
q. n. Herndon, c. Keithley and r. C.
Pockman.
At Woodland last Saturday All Eye was
examined in Justice Ruggles' Court on a
charge of grand larceny, in stealing gold
watch and chain and a pair of bracelets
from the residence of Robert Spaulding in
that city, and held to answer before the Su-
perior Court.
w. H. Meacham, of the Gait Gazette, was
in the city yesterday, and filed his official
bond as Justice of the Peace to which Of
flee the Supervisors elected him recently, to
fill the vacancy occasioned by the failure of
James Hicks to qualify. His bondsmen
are J. Sawyer and John Mcfarland.
II. Siegel, of San Francisco, is very de-
sirous of ascertaining the address of a man
by the name of Bower, who resided for
some time in Sacramento; who is said to
have sang in the choir of the Presbyterian
Church; was employed for time at
blacksmith shop on the Riverside road, etc.
The inquirer says he has very important
news for the gentleman referred to.
The various organizations of the Order of
Foresters in this city met Court Star, of
Woodland at the depot last evening and
escorted it to Odd Fellows Temple. where
a public installation of the officers-elect
of all the Courts took place. Subsequently
a fine programme of literary and musical
exercises was rendered, followed by the en-
joyment of an excellent supper at Turner
Hall.
A telephone message was received at the
station-hous yesterday forenoon that a
drunken woman had fallen down at Ninth
and !. streets, and injured her face and
head so severely that it was feared she
would bleed to death if not looked after.
Two officers Immediately started for the
locality, but when they arrived the woman
had disappeared down L street. She had
cut her face somewhat, but most of the
blood seen was flowing from her nose,
which had been severely bumped.
1t having been freely stated that charges
had been filed in Washington against the |
confirmation of Assemblyman J. Marion
Brooks, of Ventura county, as United
States District Attorney for Southern Cali
fornia to which office he was appointed
not long since, Mr.. Brooks, not knowing
of such charges except by hearsay, or as
they were reported in the papers, tele
graphed to Attorney General Garland for
information in the premises, receiving an
swer Sunday evening that no charges /
whatever had been filed against him.
The local branch of the Woman's Chris
tan Temperance Union held it's annual
meeting last Thursday, elected officers for
the ensuing year and resolved to enter at
partments, which that organization is so
successfully carrying on in other places.
The immediate efforts of the Union will be
to secure what is known as the temperance
education law that is, legal requirement
that the study of physiology shall include
instruction as TO the injurious effects OF
narcotics and stimulants upon the human
system.
During the past two or three days the
police have been making arrests of all sus-
picious-looking parties whom they came
across, owing to the frequent burglaries re-
Gently and consequently the station-house
was as full as it could conveniently be yes
terday. To remedy this the suspects were
subjected TO critical examination, and all
who could make proper showing for
themselves were released Internationally.
Nine, who were not believed to be desirable
citizens, were given the alternative of leav-
ing the city or standing trial for vagrancy.
They preferred to leave. and when last seen
were marching across the Sacramento and
Yolo bridge.
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